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Featuring Keynote speakers: Brian Cox Albert A. Bartlett Iain McGilchrist Derek Sivers Peter Senge Carl Sagan and more… Leadership For what? And what is it? It’s often about an ability to put things in perspective… And where to are the leaders taking us? Is there any global leadership at all? Sadly no. I wish there…

Sustainable development is the hype thing on the agenda – nobody buys the concept of unsustainable development. It seems there is an increased awareness and understanding even for certain common environment issues. We must become more sustainable and think a little differently – but what does this mean I hope you wonder. Let me try…

A common image of the education system is sometimes that teachers, school developers and students are so steered by all requirements and lack of resources and mold on the walls etc that they have stopped caring. The teachers have given up and the students are just checking in physically and barely that. “A teacher’s day…

Hopefully the debate on the education system/school will take off in winter. More than ever reality intrudes. Homework is perhaps the most stupid rest of the old school who should be the easiest thing to get rid of. Support the cause! The own will is deciding The word “Homework” itself does not feel right it’s…

Peter Senge on Leadership Peter Senge refers to this excellent definition around leadership: “The capacity of a human community to shape it’s future.” The Global Community Many things comes to mind after seeing that Peter Senge-video as always. That Gandhi quote.. which I can’t seem to find now… in fact I find around 10 others…

Thanks to Hildy Gottleib for the question: What would it make possible if instead talking about issues/conditions as complex, we started talking about them as simply interconnected and interdependent? THERE ISN’T PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED Instead of talking about problems to solve we should address domains of concerns. We look for the key solution and…